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AILET 2018 Analysis

The All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) is conducted once a year by National Law University- Delhi for admissions to its courses of B.A LL.B, LL.M and Ph.D. AILET 2018 was conducted on 6th May, 2018. AILET is an offline (pen-paper based) exam consisting of 150 questions from 5 sections: English; General Knowledge; Mathematics; Legal Aptitude and Reasoning. A total, of 83 seats, is offered for BA LLB course. The time given was 90 minutes (1 hr. 30 mins.) and each question carried 1 mark. This year negative marking, of 0.25 per wrong question, was also introduced. The division of questions was as follows:

English - 35

General Knowledge - 35

Legal Aptitude - 35

Reasoning - 35

Mathematics - 10

Let us now have a look at the question type and difficulty level for all the sections individually.

English:

The English section of this paper was dominated primarily by grammar and sentence correction based questions. The questions were based on punctuations, subject –verb and parts of speech. Besides grammar based questions, there were a few idioms & phrases based questions also. To score well in this section one should have proper knowledge of grammar fundamentals and words/idioms & their usages. This year also there was no reading comprehension passage in the verbal section. The overall feel of this section was moderate to tough.

General Knowledge:

This section cannot be overlooked as easy this time. There were only 9 questions based on static general knowledge which includes science, economics, history and geography. Remaining questions were from current affairs which include sports, science, budget, Government policies etc. This shows a higher inclination of the examiners towards what is happening in the current scenario. The exam this year resonates the fact that due importance needs to be given to current news and current affairs. A score range of 22-25 should be sufficient for the students.

Legal Aptitude:

Subject Name

No. of Questions

Law of Torts

5

Legal GK

14

Law of Contract

3

Constitution

10

Legal Miscellaneous

3

Total

35

Question Type

No. of Questions

Assertion-Reason Questions

7

Principle-Fact Questions (Legal Reasoning)

9

Legal Fact Questions

19

Total

35

The legal aptitude section of AILET can be easily called one of the toughest so far. Questions from the Indian Penal Code were given a complete miss. The Principle-fact questions were extremely lengthy and used multiple aspects of knowledge in the given area to form the principle. The section was dominated with questions from Indian Constitution and Current Legal GK. The Current Legal GK questions were related to proposed amendments in various laws, case laws and various other legal developments. Some of the questions stumped the AILET aspirants completely, like- youth bar association judgment, maternity benefit duration, public trust doctrine, legal personality awarded to river in New Zealand.

Reasoning:

Area

Number of Questions

Input and Output

-

Analytical Reasoning

12

Directions

2

Coding-Decoding

2

Odd man Out

2

Series

2

Critical & Verbal Reasoning

13

Miscellaneous

2

Total

35

There were in total 22 questions of reasoning (except the critical & verbal reasoning) and the level of the questions was easy to moderate. The critical reasoning questions were lengthy and thought provoking. These questions were a little tricky. They needed time to gauge and to get 100% accuracy.

Mathematics:

Area

Number of Questions

Mensuration

3

Probability

1

Calendars and Clocks

1

Boats and streams

-

Time speed and distance

1

Ratio

2

Simple Interest

1

Average

-

Profit and Loss

1

Total

10

Once the results are declared, counseling is conducted to verify documents and offer final admission to the candidates. To know more about the previous years’ cut-off for AILET, check out the following link:

Overall feel of this section was moderate to tough. As there was no sectional time limit so one should have been extra careful in allotting time to different sections. The verbal section should have been given 20-25 minutes and an attempt of 28+ questions with at least 75- 80% accuracy would help to clear cut –off this time.

General Knowledge

The overall level of the section was moderate to difficult. Not more than 12-15 minutes should have been spent on this section. A score of 22-25 was easily achievable for someone who regularly reads newspaper.

Legal Aptitude

Most of the questions were moderate to difficult and would require 25-30 minutes for a comfortable attempt. A good score in this section would be in the range of 25-27.

Reasoning

The ideal time to solve the section is 25-30 minutes and the score one could achieve was 20-22 with 80% accuracy.

Mathematics

The level of the quant section was easy. Ideally 15-20 minutes were sufficient to solve the section and the achievable score was 6-7 with 80% accuracy.